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“When the bodies were exumed and moved to new graves, the families of the missing set up small cenotaphs; your middle brother went expressly to look for the two kids' names, but apparently they weren't there. If their father had still been alive, surely he would have set up a pair of cenotaphs for them?”

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Book:Human Acts

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“I'd known about the meetings for bereaved families for some time, of course, but I'd never shown my face there. When I eventually did go, it was because I'd received a phone call from a woman calling herself their representative. Our military thug of a president is coming here to Gwangju, she told me, that butcher dares to set foot in our city...when your spilled blood had barely had time to dry.”

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“Death would have been welcome at that point, so what could there possibly have been to fear?”

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“But I don't have a map for whatever world lies beyond death. I don't know whether there, too, there are meetings and partings, whether we still have faces and voices, hearts with the capacity for joy as well as sorrow. How could I tell whether your father's loosening grip on life was something I ought to pity, or to envy?”

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“I don't like summer but I like summer nights": that was something you came out with the year you turned eight. I liked the sound of those words, and I remember thinking to myself, he'll be a poet.”

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“You disliked the shadowed places where the trees blocked out the sun. When I wanted to walk there to escape the heat, you tugged me by the wrist as hard as you could, back to where it was bright. Even though your fine hair sparkled with sweat, and you were panting so hard you sounded as if you were in pain. Let's walk over there, Mum, where it's sunny, we might as well, right? Pretending that you were too strong for me, I let you pull me along. It's sunny over there, Mum, and there's lots of flowers, too. Why are we walking in the dark, let's go over there, where the flowers are blooming.”

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“At the weekends when the two of you played badminton in the yard and the shuttlecock inevitably flew over the wall and onto the building site, your game of rock-paper-scissors to decide which of you would go and fetch it never failed to make me smile.”

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